Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.
The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “dream.”
Looks like I’m move-inspired this week… and duet-inspired!
As I said last week, music was a big part of family life when my children were growing up, and many of our favorite songs were from the movies we watched.
The 1994 McCauley Culkin-Christopher Lloyd-movie, The Pagemaster, contains two all-time favorites, Whatever You Imagine, sang by Wendy Moten, and Dream Away sang by Babyface and Lisa Stansfield during the end credits.
The Pagemaster, about a cowardly boy who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real-life, was by no means a blockbuster, only making back half of its 1994 budget of twenty-seven million dollars… but we loved it.
However, Dream Away, written by powerhouse lyricist, Diane Warren, took on a life of its own, reaching number nine on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and number eighty on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The video below became a top request on adult contemporary channels and Lisa Stansfield included a remastered version of the song on her So Natural album twenty years later.
The pop version does not include the book references like the movie version, but it’s still a beautiful song.
FUN FACT: The animated “Books” – Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror were voiced by Patrick Stewart, Whoopie Goldberg, and Frank Welker. It really is a good movie… just horrible promotion. The reader/author in me can’t help but believe a prime opportunity was missed in using this movie to promote reading to children and literacy to adults.
Enjoy!
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Dream Away
by Babyface and Lisa Stansfield
Written by Diane Warren
When this world, the real that world you’re living in
Just gets too much for you to take
When you find too many troubles on your mind then
Feel just like there is no escape
And it seems your heart has forgotten how to believe
Turn a page in your soul
There’s a place you can go
Close your eyes and let your heart fly free (fly free)
Dream away, dream away
Let imagination light your way
Take you as far as your heart can see
Dream…, dream away, dream away
To a place where hope is shining
Find your silver lining (find your silver lining)
Everything you need is just to dream away
Remember when (remember when)
The dream could take you anywhere (anywhere you want to)
Just to wish (yes) anything could be
When the father Sol is one more star you could reach
Take a look in your heart
‘Cause that’s where dreams are, where it starts
Anything is real if you just believe (believe…)
Let imagination light your way
Take you as far as your heart can see
Dream…, dream away, dream away
To a place where hope is shining
Find your silver lining (find your silver lining)
Everything you need is just to dream away
All it takes is faith to make your dream come true (ah ah)
And somewhere in this world, there’ll be somebody
To share your dreams with you
Dream away, dream away
Let imagination light your way
Take you as far as your heart can see
Dream…, dream away, dream away
To a place where hope is shining
Find your silver lining (find your silver lining)
Everything you need is just to dream away
Compiled from Genius Lyrics, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google.
Felicia Denise, Author 